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The New Canadian
An Independent Organ for Canadians of Japanese Origin
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1985

VOL. 49 — NO. 42

TORONTO; ONT,-

Ontario Legion against
compensation for J.C/s
interned during W.W. 2
TORONTO. — After an im­
passioned debate, Ontario
members of the Royal Cana­
dian Legion voted recently to
oppose the efforts of Japanese-Canadians to obtain

Canada expertise
in Middle Ages
says David Suzuki
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. —
Canada cannot participate in
the U.S. space-based Star
Wars research program be­
cause its scientific expertise
is “in the Middle Ages,”
Canadian scientist David Su­
zuki says.
U.S. President Ronald Rea­
gan ' s proposed Strategic De­
fence Initiative, dubbed Star
Wars, will require a “hightech, scientific community.”
But Suzuki said Canada's
technology is insufficiently
developed and only on a level
equivalent to that of Spain or
Portugal.
The scientist-broadcaster
told 250 students at a world
peace and development con­
ference Canadians should tell
External Affairs Minister Joe
Clark to keep Canada out of
Star Wars research?
He said the vast majority of
scientists believe the Star
Wars program, or most other
nuclear-weapons technology,
won't work — “but such
weapons are so powerful if
even 10 per cent work, you
have destroyed your enemy.”

compensation for expropria­
tions and internment during
the Second World War.
A resolution approved by a
majority of the 1,300 delegates
attending the legion's On­
tario convention stated that
spies and collaborators were
organized by enemy forces
during the war and the gov­
ernment's decision to intern
Japanese-Canadians was in
the best interests of the se­
curity of Canada.
“If that principle was fol­
lowed, I don' t know why they
didn't intern all of Kitchener,”
said legion member Roy Ken­
nett, who opposed the mo­
tion.
Mr. Kennett said he was
outraged by the fact that
Masumi Mitsue, a Canadian
forces hero in the First World
War and a president of a le­
gion branch in Vancouver,
was interned during the Se­
cond World War.
“I don't care about the
traitors that fought on the Ja­
panese side, but I do care
about Mitsue and people like
him,” Mr. Kennett said.
Mel Robertson, another le­
gion member, said: “I was
there. They were dangerous
people at that time.”
Meanwhile, the National
Association of Japanese Can­
adians in Vancouver is going
ahead with a socio-economic
study of losses suffered dur­
ing the internment of some of
its members during the Sec­
ond World War.

Poetry saves
Japanese drug
smuggler from
Toronto jail term

Japanese Red Army terrorist released
KOZO OKAMOTO, a Japanese terrorist jailed for life by
Israel in 1972 for his part in the massacre at Lod Airport in
Tel Aviv in which 26 travellers were killed, hands his identity
documents to Red Cross officials in Israel recently. He was
freed as part of a prisoner exchange.
In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Shitaro Abe said he
has instructed the ambassador to Israel to express Japan's
regret to the Israelis over the release of Okamoto, who has
now been put on a list of overseas wanted criminals.

Two JCs to receive 5th Class
Sacred Treasure awards May 31st
TORONTO — Consul General Hikaru Oka, on behalf of
the Government of Japan, will present the Fifth Class Order
of the Sacred Treasure to Mr. Issaku Uchida and the Sixth
Class Order of the Sacred Treasure to Mr. Zen-ichi Kinoshita.
Both gentlemen were unable to attend the awards presenta­
tion ceremony at the ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo on
May 22, 1985.
The presentation ceremony for Messrs. Uchida and Kino­
shita will be held at the official residence of the Consul
General of Japan, 205 Warren Road, Toronto, at 3:00 p.m.,
May 31, 1985.

Free seedlings to tourists in Japan at Tsukuba Expo irks B.C. foresters
VANCOUVER — While for­
esters in B.C. can't get
enough tree seedling to
plant, the provincial govern­
ment is giving away thou­
sands of them to tourists in
Japan.

Yamashita wins
All Japan Judo
for 9th time!
TOKYO. — For the 9th
straight time, Olympic cham­
pion, Yasuhiro Yamashita,
6th-dan, captured the All Ja­
pan Judo Championships. It
was his 203rd straight victory.
Yamashita, a teacher at To­
kai University, defeated Hiro­
shi Saito, 4th-dan, a teacher
at Kokushinkan University, by
yusei (decision) before 11,000
spectators at the Budo Kan
(martial arts hall) in Tokyo.

The ministry of internation­
al trade and investment has
bought 500,000 tree seedlings
and is flying them, 50,000 at
a time, to Expo 85 at Tsukuba,
Japan.
There they are being given
out to Tsukuba visitors who
attend the B.C. section of
the Canada Pavilion. After an
audio-visual presentation, B.C.
representatives go through
the audience handing out the
seven-inch high seedlings 30
at a time.
The program is under way
at a time when professional
foresters are arguing that on­
ly half the number of tree
seedlings needed in B.C. are
being planted.
Jack McKeown, deputy mi­
nister of international trade
and commissioner of the B.C.
pavilion at Tsukuba, said

recently the "tree program
has been very successful.
“We've got letters from
people in Japan who were
particularly pleased with the
trees,” he said, confirming
the details of the seedling
program. “They are being
offered as a gift from B.C.,
and as an encouragement to
visit the province.”
McKeown defended the Ex­
po seedlings, which he said
cost the government 27 cents

each for growing and shipp­
ing for a total cost of
$135,000.

Bill Dumont, past president
of the Association of B.C.
Professional Foresters, was
less than enthusiastic.
“I could be quite cynical,”
he said. “If they can afford to
give them away to tourists,
why can't they plant some
more here where they are
needed.”

One out of every

TORONTO — A Japanese
photographer, Haruki Mura­
yama, 32, used poetry on a
District Court judge recently
and was successful in his bid
to avoid jail after being con­
victed of possession of an
illicit drug.
He was arrested at Pear­
son International Airport
on February 10th, 1985
on the last leg of a year­
long photographic trip to the
Americas. He was seen stuff­
ing his Peruvian souvenir —
11 grams of cocaine — be­
hind a seat cushion while
awaiting a connecting flight
to Tokyo.
Before Judge James Kent
passed sentence, he asked
Murayama if he had anything
to say to the court and an intrepreter relayed the remarks
of the man described to the
court as a promising Tokyo
photographer.
“I have a heart which is
moved by seeing the eagle
in the sky ... I appeal to you
to give me another chance so
I may see the light again,”
said the message which noted
that a jail term “would be
fatal to me as a photogra­
pher.”
Murayama had never used
cocaine before his visit to
Peru and bought the illicit
drug from a Lima vendor for
$150 (U.S.), court was told. On
Canadian streets that amount
of cocaine would sell for
about $1,500, prosecutor
James Leising said.
Kent ordered Murayama to
pay a $1,000 fine within five
days, noting that the man will
be deported and had only
been on Canadian soil be­
cause of the “machinations
of international air travel.”
While a jail term would ordi­
narily be given for the offence,
Kent noted that Murayama
had spend 36 days in jail
awaiting bail, isolated by
language barriers and that
the prosecutor had agreed
with the fine.

3 cars Japanese by end of decade

DETROIT — By the end of
The industry publication, in
the decade, one of every three its latest World Outlook,
cars in the United States will predicted that Japanese auto­
be Japanese-built, causing, makers will sell three million
sales of the Big Three domes­ cars by 1991 and raise their
tic automakers to suffer, Auto­ share of the U.S. and world
motive News said.
market to one-third.

Presently, Japanese compa­

nies supply about a fifth of
North America's passenger
car demand and just under a
quarter of the world's de-,
i mand.

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Mulroney's Forgotten Pledge
(Toronto Star editorial)
As Brian Mulroney said before becoming Prime Minister,
a proper Parliamentary apology to Japanese Canadians who
were stripped of their homes or other property in wartime
would send an important message to all minority groups in
Canada. It would say “this kind of heinous action will never
again take place in Canada and, if it does, that we will have
the nerve and the courage to stand up and apologize for it
and deal with it honorably.”
Also before the last election, Mulroney rightly said Japa­
nese Canadians “are not looking for overwhelming compen­
sation” from Ottawa for their financial losses and their suffer­
ing in internment camps. “They are looking for symbolism
and reassurance. I feel very strong that Canadian citizens
whose rights were abused and violated and trampled upon
indeed should be compensated.”
Yet the Mulroney Conservatives have been in power for
eight months and there is still no Parliamentary apology.
Nor are there any negotiations between the federal govern­
ment and the representatives of the 22,000 Japanese Cana­
dians — most of them Canadian citizens — who were mis­
treated.
Now, not knowing what else it can do about this regret­
table impasse, the National Association of Japanese Cana­
dians is hiring an accountant to add up the losses. That
shouldn 't be necessary, in the absence of demands for dollarfor-dollar compensation.
Instead, the Mulroney government should acknowledge
the historic wrongs inflicted upon the Japanese Canadians
under the pressure of war, and redouble efforts to find a
form of compensation or a memorial that's acceptable to
those who suffered.

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BY ANTHONY NAKAZATO
(of Winnipeg
During a trip to Japan we
were fortunate enough to wit­
ness the Haryusen, the “Dra­
gon boat” races at the city of
Itoman, Okinawa. These races
are said to be a remnant of
Okinawa's former links with
China. Brightly dressed teams
of paddlers propelled their
boats from one end of the
harbour to the other, and
back again in the pursuit of
victory. The races started in
the morning and continued
through the afternoon until a
winner was crowned.
I was one of many photo­
graphers, some more profes­
sional than others, who took
pictures of the races. Most of
my pictures turned out some­
what fuzzy, but I showed
them to my friends upon re­
turning home. One friend no­
ticed that most, if not all, of
the paddlers wore head­
bands, or “hachimaki” as
they are called in Japanese.
This led him to believe that
the paddlers were all follow­
ing the fashion trend started
by singer-actress Olivia New­
ton-John a few years ago.
Ms. Newton-John started a
craze for wearing headbands
when she was pictured spor­
ting one on the cover of one
of her record albums. Shortly
after the release of that al­
bum, whenever her picture
appeared in the newspaper or
a magazine, or whenever she
appeared on television, she
was always wearing a headband. It had become a sort of
trademark for her, and many
fans took to wearing head-

bands in an attempt to emu­
late her. Even though it has
been several years since Oli­
via Newton-John started the
headband trend many people
still wear them regularly, and
they remain quite fashionable.
However, the paddlers at
Itoman were not wearing
headbands in order to follow
a fashion trend. In Japan the
origins of the headband
reach to the distant past. For
the samurai putting on the
hachimaki signified the pre­
paration for battle. This prac­
tice carried over to the twenti­
eth century, when during the
Second World War, Japanese
pilots wore hachimaki as they
flew into combat. But the ha­
chimaki is not worn only in
times of war. It may be worn
whenever a person commits
him or herself to some under­
taking, no matter how simple.
I once met a man wearing a
hachimaki while he worked in
his garden. The hachimaki
undoubtably helped to keep
the perspiration out of his
eyes but it also symbolized
his commitment to the work he
was doing. It's likely for this
reason that the hachimaki
have traditionally been worn
by those taking part in athle-.
tic competitions, such as the
boat races. The hachimaki
shows the commitment each
of the paddlers made the
race.
The Japanese wear head­
bands for reasons deeply
rooted in tradition, although
fans of Olivia Newton-John in
Japan may have an extra in­
centive for wearing them.
The End

Top Japan cyclist
Koichi Nakano upset

HITOMI

TOKYO — Reigning world
champion Koichi Nakano suf­
fered an upset in the All­
Japan Pofessional Cycling
Championships recently, los­
ing to up and coming Norio
Sakamoto.
Nakano, 29, world cham­
pion for the past eight
straight years, was elimina­
ted by Sakamoto in the se­
cond round. Sakamoto over­
took Nakano who spurted in
the second corner and clock­
ed 11.67 seconds.
The Japan Pro Cycling
Association later announced
a roster of seven Japanese
cyclists to be sent to the
world championships in
Venice, Italy, in August.
The delegation includes
Nakano, Sakamoto and Yo­
shiyuki Matsueda who won
the sprint title by beating
Sakamoto 2-1.

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Friday, May 31, 1985

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PERSONAL NOTES
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TOGURI
MONTREAL — Mrs. Kay
Toguri passed away on May
17, 1985. Dear wife of Sam
Toguri and dear mother of
James and Toki-Ann. Wray,
Walton, Wray Funeral Home.
Funeral service at Notre
Dame de Bonsecours.

MITSUSHIO
TORONTO. — Mrs. Toriko
Mitsushio passed away on
May 16, 1985 at St. M ichael' s
Hospital in her 69th year. Be­
loved wife of Itsuo Mitsushio.
Earle Elliott Funeral Home
“Cook-Thompson Chapel”.
Otsuya service in the chapel.
Funeral service conducted at
Toronto Buddhist Church.
Prospect Crematorium.

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Vietnam

DATES AND DOINGS

| Aftermath

Montreal JCCC “Amateur Singing Contest”

By DELPHINE HIRASUNA
On the 10th anniversary of Viet­
nam, I think of Michael and all this
analytical crap that is on TV seems
academic. “You're too late, damn it.
Hindsight doesn't erase scars, it
doesn't bring anyone back,” I mutter
at the TV commentators.
Mike didn't die in the war, but he
stands out most vividly in my mind
because it was through him that I
learned that there was a war at all. In.
1965, when I met Mike, I was a junior
college studetn who spent all my
free hours at the campus coffee
shop, gossiping with friends about
midterm exams, water skiing, and cut
boys.
Mike was 20 years old and had just
come back from Vietnam, where he
said he was an airborne Green Beret.
He didn't seem proud of it, through
it impressed the rest of us. In 1965,
the anti-war movement had not come
to Stockton yet, and we were in awe
of someone who had seen combat.
Mike and I became friends, but I
must admit that I wasn't a very sup­
portive friend because I didn' t under­
stand his turmoil.
Years later his friend David told me
that when Michael was in Vietnam in
1963, he survived a massacre only by
pulling a dead body of his buddy over
him. “They were crossing a field or
something when they came under
fire,” David told me. “As he ran for
cover, Mike noticed he was the only
one left standing, so he fell as if he
had been shot and rolled into a ditch
and pulled his friend's body over
him. The Vietcong came along and
methodically ran a saber through
every man. Mike said he just laid
there for hours under his friend, wait­
ing till the enemy had gone.”

YAMADA
HIROKADO
COQUITLAM, B.C. — Mr.
VANCOUVER. — Mr. Shigeo
Hirokado passed away on Joe Yuikio Yamada of Coquit­
April 20, 1985 at aged 83 lam passed away on May 7,
years. Survived by relatives in 1985 at the age of 64 years.
Survived by his loving fami­
Japan and friends in Vancou­
ver. Funeral service held at ly, wife Kazue; son Michael
Glenhaven Memorial Chapel and wife, Dale; daughter Mari
with the Rev. Y. Izumi offici­ and husband Hitoshi; and 4
ating. Vancouver Crematorium. grandchildren; 2 brothers,
Toshio, of Winnipeg, and Tat­
suo, of Edmonton; 2 sisters,
CARD OF THANKS
Teruye Otsuki, of Mayne Island
We wish to express our
and Miye Iwabuchi, of Vansincere gratitude to all our
couver.
friends and relatives for
Funeral serivce held at
messages of sympathy, acts
Vancouver Buddhist Church.
of kindness, Koden, and
Glenhaven Memorial Chapel.
beautiful floral tributes
The Rev. Y. Izumi officiated.
received during our recent
Cremation.
loss of beloved husband
and father, Masao Naka­
INOUYE
NEW WESTMINSTER. —
gawa.
Aiko, Cheri (Akemi) Na­
Mr. Tomojiro Inouye passed
kagawa and family.
away on May 6, 1985 in New
Westminster, B.C. at the age
of 85 years.
GLYN M. ONIZUKA
Predeceased by 1 son,
Mits, 1980. Survived by his
Barrister &
loving wife, Tomi; 5 sons,
Solicitor
Masaru and wife, Hideko, SaiThe story brought many of Mike's
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ji and wife, Sumi, Tak and
Suite 201
visibly
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Telephone: 598-2002
daughters, Sumiko and hus­ ploded. He also had a cleaning
band, Sho Kamachi, Keiko ■fetish, which was unusual for a guy
his age. Every day he would scrub
and husband, Allan Mayede,
Masako and husband, Steve the floors on his hands and knees
Tasaka; also survived by and wash everything in sight. I called
it the Lady Macbeth complex, not
daughter-in-law, Yoshiko In­ knowing how close to the truth that
JimM' ®
ouye; 18 grandchildren.
was. One day after Mike stopped to
40 Melford Drive, Unit 1
Funeral service at Steves- aid a couple who had been in a
ton Buddhist Church with the seious car accident, he went crazy.
Rev. G. Abe officiating. Rich­ He tossed furniture out the window
M1B2G2
and wen on an extended drunk. Our
mond Funeral Home. Inter­ friendship ended abruptly. A few
ment Forest Lawn Memorial years later I heard he was active in
the anti-war movement.
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MONTREAL — On June 9th and Amateaur Singing Con­
test will be held at the J.C. Cultural Centre here from 1:30 p.m.
Duets, mixed choruses, families, children, sing-along groups,
etc. are welcome. There are casettes available for those who
have none. Interested parties are asked to register by calling
the Centre by Friday, June 7th to facilitate programming. Ad­
mission fee is 50 cents; children free. There will be prizes
and kaki-gori will be served.
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History of Montreal Project needs helpers
MONTREAL — A committee under Shigeru Wanatabe has
met twice to continue the Oral History of Japanese in Mont­
real project 1 started three years ago by three students.
The project tentatively will be divided into four chronolo­
gical periods of: Pre 1942; 1942 — 1950; 1950—1967; and
1967-1977.
Each committee member will concentrate on one period.
Once the present tapes are transcribed on paper, the committe will proceed with more interviews and to build up a
permanent archive of memorabilia, photos, letters, diaries,
news clippings, etc.
Helping on the committee at present is C. Ethridge, Miki
Fukasawa, Koko Hasler, Mariko Ikeda, Alice Kudo, Rei Naka­
shima, Keibo Oiwa, Jackie Stevens, Fumiko TOzawa.
We need many more helpers (if interested please call
Mr. Watanabe at 274-1039 or at the Centre 728-1996) for taping
or transcribing tapes (in English or Japanese) and other
research.
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My only regret about our friendship
is that as a naive, sheltered teenager,
I could not comprehend the magni­
tude of pain he must have been in.
Vietnam will haunt my generation
for the rest of our lives. The 10th an­
niversary of the U.S. withdrawal from
Vietnam has put me in a reflective
mood. I think about Mike, and his
friend, Don, who died in a car crash
six months after returning. Police re­
ports said he was drunk. Mike said at
the time that Don couldn't readjust
to being back in the U.S.
Then there was Nick who pumped
iron and wanted to be Mr. Universe
and came back with no legs, and
John who was shot two days after
landing in Southeast Asia. His father
sat on the draft board, but refused to
exempt him because it wouldn't be
fair to the boys he sent over.
The personal stories go on, some
tragic, some that turned out okay.
Ten years later we are being told
what went wrong by those who had
been in a position to alter the course.
The TV discussions are intellectual,
detached, and presented in a neatly
packaged summary tha glosses over
the thousands of lives that have been
lost or shattered. It's a continuing
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Nikkei chemist discovers weapon Japan technology develops
to control cockroach birthrate
“Washlet” — blow dry bidet
BERKELEY. — The bark of
an African tree may provide
scientists with the newest
weapon against one of hu­
mankind ' s oldest enemies —
the cockroach.
Isao Kubo, a “natural pro­
ducts” chemist at the Univer­
sity of California, Berkeley,
believes he has discovered a
potent method of birth control
for roaches in the form of a
chemical contained in the
root bark of the Msimbwi
tree.

When injected into male in­
sects, Kubo has found, the
substance prevents their fe­
male mates from producing
eggs. No eggs, no more cock­
roaches.
Kubo hopes that facing
roach food with the chemical
— called anacardic acid —
will turn out to be just as ef­
fective as injecting the in­
sects with the substance.
“If we can feed it to them,
it' s a new way of control,” he
said before presenting his
findings recently in Miami
Beach at the annual meeting
of the American Chemical
Society. He added that ana­
cardic acid can be produced
in laboratories at low cost.
Kubo specializes
in
borrowing natural pest­
fighting tactics of trees and
plants and adapting them for
use by human beings.
In his experiments, Kubo
used crickets instead of
cockroaches to test the effectiveness of anacardic acid
as a sterilizaiton method. Crikets, he said, are very close
relatives of cockroaches but
easier to raise in captivity.
Ten male crickets were in­

jected with anacardic acid
and mated with 10 female
crickets. After mating, the fe­
males did not deposit eggs,
the researcher found.
Kubo said anacardic acid
appears to block the action of
an enzyme, or chemical cata­
lyst, which is transferred to
the female along with the
male's sperm. The enzyme
triggers the production of a
fatty acid called a prostaglandn, which stimulates the
female to deposit eggs on a
convenient leaf or blade of
grass.
He said more experiments
must be done to make sure
the chemical works in cock­
roaches.
Kubo, who works in UC
Berkeley's department of en­
tomological sciences, first
discovered the insect-com­
bating properties of the acid
while observing natives dum­
ping loads of the fruit from
cashew trees into ponds in
Kenya. The cashew fruit,
Kubo was told, killed the lar­
vae of mosquitoes, the car­
riers of mosquito-born
malarra, and snails, which
harbor the parasites respon­
sible for another devastating
disease — schistosomiasis.

Puzzled, the chemist
brought a sample piece of the
fruit back to Berkeley, and
after analyzing it, found that
the active ingredient was ana­
cardic acid, the same chemi­
cal he later isolated in the
Mdimbwi tree.
In addition to its anti-roach
potential, Kubo believes, the
chemical may provide Third
World countries with a lowcost pesticide for the control
of disease-carrvino insects.

TOKYO — Take a tech­
nologically talented nation, a
sagging future for plumbing
fixtures, a society that wor­
ships gadgetry and what do
you get?
A microcomputerized
bidet. Toto, Japan' largest
toilet maker, has brought
high technology into the
Japanese home with its
“Washlet” a blowdry version
of the French bidet.
Last year, the company
sold 350,000 Washlets, not a
remarkable figure, but 17
times more than six years
ago, before the unit was
microcomputerized.
The increased popularity
accompanies a trend away
from traditional squat-type
toilets and also reflects
greater buying power that can
accommodate the $600 a Wa­
shlet costs.
But the biggest reason for
the surge in Washlet sales is
“Japanese attention to
health,” as one Toto manager
put it.
Masanori Koga says hemmorrhoids are “a big problem
for Japanese,” because of
their heavy intake of rice and
long periods of sitting on
hard surfaces, including the
floor.
Figures from.a hemorrhoid
preparation manufacturer in­
dicate that two out of three
Japanese adults suffer from
the malady, while an official
with the American phar­
maceutical company Smith
Kline Beckman said that
although the firm has made
no comparison with other
countries, clearly in Japan,
“it seems to be a real pain in
the rear end.”
The habit of not heating
bathrooms results in “less
time actually spent washing
in winter,” which only ag­
gravates the problem,” Koga
said.
The Washlet's multibut­
toned control panel governs
the temperature of warm jets
of washing water, which are
followed by a fanning pro­
cess.
While the device no doubt
helps relieve a painful situa-

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tion, advertisments also play
upon a native squeamishness
about the unclean by em­
phasizing the elimination of
the need to use toilet paper.
Toto has sold a number of
Washlets in Souteast Asia,
where Koga said, “if people
could afford it, it could enjoy
a big market, because it's
suitable
for
Islamic
customs.”
Marketed under the slogan
“think about how your behind
feels,” the Washlet's promo­
tional material features a
Japanese female singer dres­
sed in lime green bloomers
and fishnet stockings, reclin­
ing on the edge of a giant
toilet seat.
Koga said that so far there
have been no reports of ope­
rational malfunctions related
to the washlet, although last
year when a competitor's
model caught fire, “we read
the news with pleasure.”

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